Long work, tracked step by step.

Company formation, a fit-out contract, a certification course. Define the steps once on the service, and every new deal follows the same steps in the same order, so anyone can see what is done and what is holding the rest up.

DealLicence applied forStep three of sixAdvance
TrackOn the servicenot rebuilt per deal
BehindTwo donevisible to everyone
AheadThree leftand what they need
MoneyFollowsa draw per stage
One track, every deal that sells it.
Multi-step workThe steps belong to the service, so every deal gets them

Formation, construction, a course. Define the track once on the service and every deal that sells it arrives with the same stages, already in order.

The track

Set the steps up once. Every deal follows them.

Instead of rebuilding a checklist on every deal, you define the steps on the service itself. The hundredth licence application then runs exactly the same way as the first.

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Six steps, and the licence is the one that takes the time

  1. Name reservedTrade name approved and held
  2. Documents collectedPassports, proofs, board resolution
  3. Licence applied forSubmitted, waiting on the authorityWhere this deal is
  4. Licence issuedThe trade licence is in hand
  5. Establishment cardImmigration file opened
  6. Visas stampedThe part the client actually feels

The flow belongs to the service, so every deal that sells it gets the same steps without anybody rebuilding them. Move a deal on and the stage moves with it.

Everyone can see which step is holding it up.

Who this is for

Three kinds of work this was built around.

All three take weeks or months to deliver, and the customer keeps asking how far along things are. Stage flows give everyone the same clear answer.

Company formation

Name reservation, documents, the licence application, the licence itself, the establishment card and visas. Every step is visible, so you can tell the client exactly where their licence is.

Construction and fit-out

Design sign-off, first fix, second fix, handover. Each stage can release its share of the contract value, so the payment schedule follows the work automatically.

Courses and cohorts

Enrolment, taught modules, assessment, certification. The whole cohort moves through together, so you track the intake as one group.

Setting it up

Turn any service into staged work with one setting.

Choose the stage delivery model on a service, and you define its steps right there on the same page.

  • Use a fixed set of stages for work like formation or construction
  • Or let each quote build its own set of steps for bespoke work
  • Define and edit the steps in one place, on the service itself
  • Move a deal forward and its stage updates for everyone
  • Add a payment plan so money can follow the stages
ServiceStage delivered
Set withOne field
Steps live onThe service
Applied toEvery deal that sells it
Rebuilt per dealNever
Delivery model
Stage workflowFixed steps
Quote-builtComposed per deal
The blocked step is visiblewithout asking anybody
The library

See every service that runs in steps, in one list.

The Stages screen shows each of them with how many steps it has, how many deals are using it and which industry it belongs to. One filter pulls out the services set to run in steps that nobody has defined the steps for yet, which is the gap worth closing before the next sale.

The list
Per serviceSteps and deals
FilterNo steps yet
Tagged byIndustry
Half-finished setup shows up before a customer finds it
The steps

Name each step and say how long it should take.

A step has a name and a number of days, so work that usually takes six weeks says so up front. Add steps, rename them and drag them into order on the service itself, and everyone selling that service works to the new order from then on.

A step
HasA name and the days it should take
OrderDrag it, or move it up and down
Edited onThe service, on its workflow tab
The expected days are your figures, not a guess from a model
Starters

Start from a ready-made track instead of a blank page.

Three tracks are built in and arrive with their steps and expected days already written: company formation, construction, and a course cohort. Seed the closest one, then rename or drop whatever does not match the way you work.

Formation track
Its stepsChecks, engagement, filing, licence, visa, bank
Also built inConstruction, and a course cohort
After seedingRename, reorder or delete any step
A head start, not a track you are stuck with

Access

Who can do what.

Anyone doing the work can move a deal forward. Changing the steps everyone follows takes a higher role.

See

See where any deal has got to.

Do

Move a deal to its next step.

Manage

Define the steps a service moves through.

Admin

Choose which services use stage delivery.

See Commerce on your own data.

Half an hour on your own catalogue, with the stock, the delivery and the schedule behind it.